Just a few of the many people you should know:
Substantia Jones
Shoog McDaniel
J. Aprileo of Comfy Fat
Kivan Bay
Da’Shaun L. Harrison
Corissa Enneking
Linda Bacon
Haley Morris-Cafiero
FedFront Danmark
Cat Pausé
Charlotte Cooper
Marilyn Wann
Jessamyn Stanley
Lindy West
Stacy Bias
Smashlyn Monroe
Roxane Gay
Andrea Storgaard Brok
Ragen Chastain
Miranda Kane
Sarah Hollowell
Gabrielle Deydier
Virgie Tovar
Jes Baker
Scottee
Stephanie Yeboah
Melissa Fabello
YrFatFriend
Sonya Renee Taylor
And for representing:
Beth Ditto
Chrissy Metz
Keala Settle
Jo Brand
Rebel Wilson
Joy Nash
Adele
Nicole Byer
Tess Holliday
Gabourey Sidibe
Alison Spittle
Maddie Baillio
Lizzo
Bridget Everett
Danielle Macdonald
Aidy Bryant
Melissa McCarthy
Amy Lamé
Desiree Burch
Podcasts:
The Fat Lip
She’s All Fat
Fat Club Podcast
Two Whole Cakes FatCast
Bad Fat Broads!
Woman of Size
The Belly Love Podcast
Friend of Marilyn Podcast
Books About Fatness:
Bacon, Linda and Aphramor, Lucy, Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight (BenBella Books, 2014).
Bacon, Linda, Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (BenBella Books, 2010).
Baker, Jes, Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames: Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass (Seal Press, 2018).
Baker, Jes, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living (Seal Press, 2015).
Blank, Hanne, The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts (Ten Speed Press, 2013).
Campos, Paul, The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health (Gotham Books, 2004).
Chastain, Ragen, Fat: The Owner’s Manual (Sized For Success Multimedia, 2012).
Cooper, Charlotte, Fat Activism – A Radical Social Movement (HammerOn Press, 2016).
Cooper, Charlotte, Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size (The Women’s Press Ltd, 1998).
Farrell, Amy Erdman, Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture (NYU Press, 2011).
Gay, Roxane, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Corsair, 2018).
Harding, Kate, Lessons From The Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (Tarcherperigee, 2009).
Holliday, Tess, The Not So Subtle Art of Being A Fat Girl: Loving The Skin You’re In (Blink Publishing, 2017).
Kinzel, Lesley, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2012).
LeBesco, Kathleen, Revolting Bodies: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
Miller, Kelsey, Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting And Got A Life (Grand Central Publishing, 2016).
Murphy, Julie, Dumplin’ (HarperCollins, 2017).
Murphy, Julie, Puddin’ (HarperCollins, 2019).
Orbach, Susie, Fat Is A Feminist Issue (Arrow, 2016).
Pausé, Cat, Wykes, Jackie and Murray, Samantha, Queering Fat Embodiment: Queer Interventions (Routledge, 2014).
Rothblum, Esther and Solovay, Sondra, The Fat Studies Reader (NYU Press, 2009).
Schoenfielder, Lisa and Wieser, Barb, Shadow on a Tightrope (Rotunda Press, 1983).
Stanley, Jessamyn, Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body (Workman Publishing Company, 2017).
Taylor, Sonya Renee, The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018).
Tovar, Virgie, ed., Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion (Seal Press, 2012).
Tovar, Virgie, You Have The Right To Remain Fat (Melville House UK, 2018).
Walker, Sarai, Dietland (Atlantic Books, 2015).
Wann, Marilyn, Fat!So?: Because You Don’t Have To Apologise For Your Size (Ten Speed Press, 1998).
West, Linda, Shrill (Quercus, 2016).
If you want to know more:
HAES – Health at Every Size. www.healthateverysize.org.uk
Association for Size Diversity and Health – their website has a really good resources list, full of scientific evidence for fat acceptance, more books about fatness and where to find HAES experts to work with. www.sizediversityandhealth.org
Militant baker – www.themilitantbaker.com/2017/04/diversify-your-instagram-feed.html